Right to die

[KnockEmOuttt]

Why should we have the right to end our lives, we do not have the right to take the life of others except in the case of protecting ourselves from a killer. Many diseases are killers and we have the right to kill them if we can, so there is no need to take our own life. Back to the case of someone trying to kill us, it's just like a disease we can't always be successful in fighting the threat, so should we just give up and kill ourselves.

This past February, my grandmother (whom I was the closest to in the family) was diagnosed with cancer. We looked into options to fight it. Within two weeks of diagnosis she was bedridden in the hospital. She suffered there for a little over three weeks. It was apparent within the first days of her illness she wasn't going to get any better. She continued to suffer for those three weeks in total agony (she was a trooper and rarely complained, even though she had a tube literally running from her nose to her intestine draining the fluid that was blocking her up, she lived on no food for almost two weeks. Still, I knew that she was miserable.) She was ready to go, she wanted the pain to stop, but it just dragged on and on. I wanted so desperately for her suffering to end, as did she, but it took a month before the suffering stopped.

So tell me, why is it that she shouldn't have been given the option to have ended it?